This
is a furry convention up near Seattle with a significant focus on
fiction writing. I've attended Rainfurrest since 2010, and I've
participated in presenting panels in their writing track since 2011.

This is a program for gifted
young'uns. I was an actual student in the program at the age of
9, in 1991. It was a mixed experience. However, the AIL
program has become a much bigger and more positive part of my life from
the other side, as one of the adults in charge. I devoted two
weeks of every summer to AIL from 2001 to 2006 and continued to
help out as much as possible through 2008.

This is part of a chain of
creative writing / homework help centers for elementary through high
school kids. I discovered it because I lived near their excellent
storefront,
and I spent a year and a half in '06-'08 being one of their drop-in
tutors.

This is my favorite webcomic. You should read the one about solitaire.(Update: I told Ryan North how much I love the "as she is played" strips of Dinosaur Comics, and then he wrote this one!) ((Also, this one is about the science behind spaceships like the one in Otters In Space!))